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THE ZOROASTRIAN IDEAL MAN by ERVAD PHIROZE SHAPURJI MASANI M THE ZOROASTRIAN IDEAL MAN By ERVAD PHIROZE SHAPURJI MASANI M. A., LL. B, SOLICITOR DINI AVAZ (VOL 2, NO. 5 & 6), (VOL 3, NO.1) & (VOL 3, NO.2) (This article was published in Frasho-Gard Volume 20, Nos. 1, 2, 3. 4 [July 1930-June 1931] (consolidated). It will give you Knowledge and Devotion both. ) Yenghe Hatam Aat Yasne Paiti Vangho, of the Soul. and accordingly it is the Mazdao Ahuro Vaetha Ashat Hacha, rnandate of the Zoroastrian Daena that Yaonghamcha Tanscha Taocha its adherents should live an earthly life Yazamaide, with the underlying Summum Bonum - "Aurvatarn Uranern," as an "Out-of-the Progressors towards the undercurrent of such life, whatever Ideal Existence, (he is the Ideal-Soul) the outward waves and storms, the ups whom Ahura Mazda has demarcated as and downs of life may be, for these are a Good Soul in-point-of-following up of experienced only as a result of the Law the Law of Attunement by virtue-of-his- of "Paitioget" - the Law of Reward and practice-of Asha the Law of Order Retribution taught in the Gathas. Divine - with such of the male-souls and In order to live an Ideal life there- female-souls we-aspire to-attune- fore, one must care to acquire the Ideal ourselves! " knowledge of all the Laws of Nature summed by the expressions "Daena . Vanghuhirn Mazdayasnim ... ya "Lives of Great Men all remind us Ahuirish Zarathustrish" - We can make our lives Sublime, "the Good Law of Attunement with And, departing leave behind us Mazda, which is of Zarathustra of Footprints on the sands of time-- Ahura." Unfortunately by an Footprints that perhaps another, inexplicable and unintelligible law of Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A nature the patent Avestan texts - the forlorn and ship-Wrecked brother, Original 21 Nasks of the Entire Seeing, shall take heart again." Zoroastrian Law -have for us become The Law of Aurvatarn Urunem latent, and consequently we are at a loss - the Spiritual Unfoldment of the Soul, to acquire that Ideal knowledge, that the practice and attunement whereof is beatific elixir of knowledge known by enjoined in the Avesta necessitates that the Avestic name of "Khshnoom" in the we should keep before our mental eye Gathas, of the Zoroastrian Law and and perpetuate in our thought- Religion. Nevertheless we have been atmosphere those ideal personages who fortunate, thanks to the heralds - of the have themselves followed that Law in modern Avestan-Pahlavi studies. to practice during their sojourn in life on decipher many jewels of that Ideal earth. According to the Avesta the knowledge, by a deep and patient study ultimate object of earthly life for man is of Avesta, Pahlavi, Pazend and the Unfoldment Persian texts and glosses, reading many in order to enable him to add himself as technical words and expressions bet- a Unit to their number. This is the Law ween the lines, Often it is the experience of Higher Self-Sacrifice for Service of students that Pahlavi, Pazend and taught in the Zoroastrian Daena; the Persian scriptural studies have ultimate goal of life after reaching a elucidated difficult Avestan texts and certain stage of "'Aurvatam Urunem" is words: thus the former proving supple- the enjoyment of the work of a mentary to the latter. "Saoshyant" the Spiritual Benefactor of From such patient study one can see the Future in Arithmetical, Geometrical that almost all the extant Avesta prayers and Harmonical Progressions ad form a magnificent collection of all the infinitum. Ideals before the devotee the Ideals of The Great Law of Service as a Spiritual Laws and Forces and Beings Saoshyant is defined in various ways in working in Nature for the Great Law of the Avesta and especially in the Gathas. Unfoldment and Attunement, as well as The Avestic formula "Yenghe Hatam" the Ideals of men who have in their quoted above, which occurs repeatedly various spheres of life on earth given in almost every Avestic prayer - Gah, their due share of contribution to the Nyaesh, Yasht, Yasna, Visparad and Mighty Wave of Spiritual Progress. The Gatha - is the fundament of that Great Fravardin Yasht is the example of such a Law. Of the three basic formulae of the collection of Ideal Forces, Beings and entire Avesta Scriptures, viz., Yatha Persons, of which are found Ahu Vairyo, Ashem Vohu, and Yenghe abridgments in the "Satom" recital and Hatam, Yatha Ahu Vairyo has its the "Afringan" and the Pazend Afrins. bearing on the Spiritual planes of The practical utility of reciting existence, Ashem Vohu on the physical these Ideals and keeping them in the and the ultra physical, and Yenghe thought-vibrations and heart-palpitations Hatam has its bearing on all the planes lies in this that the devotee yearns for throughout of the physical and spiritual knowing their lives and doings, and existences. In other words Yatha Ahu burns for following in their wake, thus Vairyo has its vibration-effect like the enabling himself to make his own life Gathic division of the Avesta, Ashem- sublime and ideal and to merge himself Vohu like the Datic division, whereas with them 'by a life of unselfish devoted Yenghe Hatam has its all pervading and Service' of the Law of Unfoldment. all penetrating vibration-effect like the Moreover the practical utility in a more Hada Milnthric division of the Avesta, - considerable degree lies in this that by so magnificent and overlapping is the remembering constantly such Ideal realm of the Great Law of Service for Forces, Beings and Persons with the one the ultimate fulfillment of the Sublime thought-force viz., that the Ideal Scheme of Frasho-kereiti, the Universal Thought-Word Deed-Energy which Fresh Wholesomeness or Progress these Idea1 Forces, Beings and Persons Ultimate. have exerted and are now still exerting, The "Yenghe Hatam" formula gives shall give the devotee himself an to the devoted reciter, by virtue of its uplifting force and help him on in the thought-and-word-vibration efficacy, a Spiritual Progress continuous force motoring the Soul of the devotee towards a trend of life in all its departments spiritually DINI AVAZ ENTERS THIRD YEAR. inclined for the Great Service in future, thus paving the way through minor self-sacrificing services to the Ultimate This is the last issue of the second year of Higher Service which every soul is this humble journal. destined to render to the Unseen even from the time of its very first mani- Kindly renew your subscriptions. festation. The Yenghe Hatam formula Although our office address has changed, teaches that 'All are but parts of one subscriptions are received at the former Stupendous Whole', and that therefore address in UCO Building. unless All live and move and have their being only for the sake of the Cheques, in the name of “Dini Avaz service of the whole, there cannot be Committee” please! the fulfillment of the Grand Scheme of Becoming Whole or Perfect. To initiate Kindly do quote your code number appearing on the postal flap. oneself with the Yasna, to undergo the higher ceremony of attunement with the unseen Spiritual Workers, thus to qualify oneself for admission into the - Dini Avaz Committee. fold of those who have already been admitted for that Higher Service and who are being admitted every moment of the "Zravan-Daregho Khadata" the continuous automobile Time - this is putting into practical enforcement the "Ushta", the Joy Eternal, the Bliss Divine Will "Khshathra Vairya" for Everlasting, which can never be those backward souls who are still surpassed by any degree of so-called inclined towards the material selfish earthly-happiness. The "Yenghe ends and ideas of material happiness to- Hatam" enunciates very effectively the wards the narrow self-seeking regard- Law of Service and Mutual Help less of the Great Law of Mutual, Help underlying all the concatenations of the and Service, which is designated as multitudinous activities in Nature Anghra Manyu. One can conclude logi- exoteric or esoteric. cally hence that Anghra Mainyu has a momentary existence, and as soon as Not an inch in Nature is void of the the backward souls are awakened and working of that Great Law. Even what disposed to help on the Great Law of seems outwardly to be opposition Service or Yasna, Anghra Mainyu "Paitiyara" of Anghra Mainyu is only ceases to work with them or upon them. Negative help or Service working by the Hence it is repeatedly said in the Pahlavi subtle law of Polarity according to the texts that "Spena Mino Aet, la Ganak great plan of the Universal Progress. In Mino, - the Spenta Manyu exists, the reality Anghra Mainyu has no separate Angra Mainyu does not. In the Avesta existence of its own, but it is a force the same idea of the Ultimate vanishing helping on the Law of Service of Anghra Mainyu is re-iterated negatively. It is only the Punitive Law everywhere, implying that when the Law of Positive Help and move on the ladder of gradual Spiritual Service reigns supreme, the Law of Progress by following the footsteps of all Negative Service shall subside and these Ideal Souls collectively kept in ultimately disappear. In the words of the view incessantly. The special feature of poet, the Gathic "Yenghe Me" formula lies in "The Evil is null, is nought, is silence the devotee's remembering the Ideal implying sound, Souls by means of their own names and What was good shall be good, with for this adds to the concentration of the evil so much good more, devotee's thought energy upon the On the earth the broken arcs, in the "Kehrpa" or Unseen tenement of that Heaven a Perfect Round.
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